Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unprofitably murky. A question at the core of the film -whether corrosive city is preferable to deadening land-is never convincingly asked, although Rocco is supposed to end with its answer. Worst is the endless mayhem. Visconti's camera is a carnivore, stalking for blood and bruised flesh, and the sight is fascinating. But it is like a lion tearing at a zebra: only a spectator with a great hatred for zebras can watch it for long...
Along comes David-cynical, selfish, divorced and avidly on the lookout "for a special sort of experience; a kind of imagination of the flesh." Mary runs off with him, although she senses that she is leaving for a "gas chamber." Emotionally speaking, she is right, for David compulsively attempts to destroy her. Trying to understand himself, he inwardly sizes up his kind: "We are the tinkers, who move on; who invite experience but flee from consequences . . . We are the most dangerous of all: the permanently immature...
...four scattered locations across the U.S. last week, terror struck suddenly. ¶Floating half submerged in a tiny Fairfax County, Va., stream, the nude body of Marta Santa Cruz, 22, was discovered by two teenagers. Marta had apparently been raped, then strangled. Her hands and feet were bound, and flesh scrapings found under her fingernails indicated a desperate struggle with her attacker. Daughter of a retired Bolivian army colonel. Marta worked as a clerk-typist at the Washington, D.C. Hospital Center, was a frequent guest at parties given by Bolivia's Ambassador Victor Andrade. ¶ In North Buffalo...
...Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long...
...facts. Clem Anderson is a thinly disguised Midwestern incarnation of Thomas, and as the novel opens, he is 37, newly successful, about to marry a blonde Hollywood starlet, and already suffering the physical penalties of literary lionization-"the bloaty softness of his face, the bat's-flesh bags under his eyes." From that high or low point, Novelist Cassill traces the fever chart of Clem's fatal illness-his life-in an intricate series of flashbacks...